Excuse me if this post is a little rough at the edges. I just learned how to do this mini-hack, and it’s so valuable I’ll go public and await your refinements as they are posted below.
Thanks to David Weeks for explaining how to accomplish it.
1. Go on the web to
2. Mouse on your OS X 10.4 Tiger computer to Go / Utilities / Terminal, and open that geeky-looking application.
3. Type in: sudo(space)open(space), where you press the space bar on your keyboard instead of the word (space) above.
4. Drag the Carbon Copy Cloner application icon into your Terminal window, and a “path” will appear that will say something like: /Applications/Carbon\ Copy\ Cloner/Carbon\ Copy\ Cloner.app/
5. Attach and mount an external FireWire drive to your Macintosh, then press your Return key, and enter your OS X administrator password when asked to do so.
6. Carbon Copy Cloner will then open, so select your source and target disks, and make sure your Preferences are set to “Make Bootable.”
7. Then click on the little padlock symbol, click on “Clone,” enter your OS X password again, click “Ignore” when a bizarre message appears, and the cloning process should begin.
WARNING and DISCLAIMER: Neither I nor MyMac.com warrant or guarantees any results. You are *on your own* with this procedure. Weeks and Nemo are using it with success, and invite your comments below, but do NOT attempt it unless you are comfortable doing such an action. This is a temporary fix until Mike Bombich authors a Tiger release for Carbon Copy Cloner.
SUGGESTIONS: Make sure you have plenty of storage space on the target drive. I chose to partition my target hard disk into several small partitions, every one capacious enough to contain more than the required cloned source drive for each of my three computers.
[Nemo]
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